curriculum vitae Sabin Bieri, PhD

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1 curriculum vitae Sabin Bieri, PhD Centre for Development and Environment University of Bern Hallerstrasse Bern private: Jurastrasse Bern Mobile:

2 Place of birth: Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland Date of birth: March 20,

3 Current position Head of Multidimensional Disparities Cluster, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern (since 2011) Projects and responsibilities Co-leader of Genderized sanitation a research project to explore women s and girls preferences with regard to sanitation and hygiene. Cooperation with Sandec/EAWAG Gender mandate for the National Centre of Competence for Research NCCR North-South Co-editor of publication on economic development and gender equality in value chains initiatives in the global South. Cooperation with SDC Research and training in gender and development; certificate of advanced studies programme CAS; (themes: violence against women, gender, religion and culture, gender in urban and rural development contexts, gender and global economy, gender in international legal frameworks) Capacity building in the field of gender and development at the ICFG, University of Bern Additional responsibilities: communication Senior lecturer at the department of Geography, University of Bern. Group for Social Geography, Political Geography and Gender Studies Research and teaching interests Uneven development, gender and development; socio-economic development and globalisation, political geography; social movements; urban geography; ethnography and qualitative research methods Professional experiences Senior researcher, lecturer and coordinator of advanced studies programmes at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, University of Bern Officer for gender management at the University of Arts, Bern Professor for social sciences at the University of Arts, Bern Project manager départs, a mentoring program for the advancement of women artists; University of Arts, Bern/Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology Consultant/evaluator for mentoring programs at national and university level Assistant at the Department of Geography, Group for Social Geography, Political Geography and Gender Studies; University of Bern High school instructor for geography and history at the Gymnasium Solothurn Education and training 2

4 2007 Doctoral thesis on social movements and the construction of urban spaces in Switzerland Awarded member of the graduate school shifting gender cultures, Universities of Bern and Fribourg; granted with a scholarship by the Swiss University Conference SUC 2001 Degree in high school education for history and geography 2000 Master s thesis on livelihoods, development intervention and local grassroots initiatives in the Bolivian Andes Research report on livelihoods, household strategies and herding in the Bolivian Andes; commissioned by the Swiss Development Agency SDC and PROMIC, a Bolivian NGO for integrated watershed management Studies in Geography and Modern History at the University of Bern, CH. Studies in pedagogy and didactics in history and geography for high school level Teaching (University of Bern, selection) 2011 Colloquium: Gender and Poverty 2010 Seminar: Alternative forms of housing for and by the elderly 2009 Seminar: Food security and food sovereignty: a gendered analysis Lecture: Social geography: Geographies of ageing Seminar: Social justice in globalising markets. Focus: South/South-East Asia 2008 Lecture: Gender-perspectives in political geography Public Lecture: Who cares? Nannies, nurses and nightshifts. The social and political economy of care 2007 Seminar: Introduction to gender studies 2006 Lecture: Gender and political geography Teaching at other Universities 2009 University of Klagenfurt, Austria: Social geography. With Dr. Andrea Kofler. 3

5 Papers at international conferences and seminars (selection) 2011, June Public geographies. Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale. Talking about sh***. Doing geography in interdisciplinary teams. 2010, December Forum für Entwicklung und Umwelt, University of Bern. Mehr als eine strategische Allianz? Mögliche Schnittstellen zwischen Geschlechterforschung und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung. 2010, May The politics of care, welfare and social cohesion: Intersectional perspectives on redistributive and liberal welfare regimes in a global context. South African Swiss joint research seminar. University of Basel. To care and to be cared for: The role of elderly people in the Swiss care regime. 2009, September Deutscher Geographentag Wien. Die Feminisierung globalisierter Arbeitsmärkte, wachstumsorientierte Entwicklung und die MDGs. Konkurrierende und komplementäre Debatten in gender studies und Entwicklungsforschung. 2009, March Pathways out of poverty. Gender and rural employment. FAO-IFAD-ILO Workshop on gaps, trends and current research in gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment. Rome. Power and Poverty. Reducing gender inequality by ways of rural employment? With Annemarie Sancar, SDC, Bern. 2008, May Frontiers and passages, joint conference by the Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften and Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Freiburg i. Br./Basel. Gender identities and the negotiation of gender roles under the impact of drought. A case study from Makueni district, Kenya. With Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, DIE, Bonn. 2008, April Gender und geographische Entwicklungsforschung, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin. Wie bleiben wir handlungsfähig? Geschlechterforschung und Entwicklungsforschung zwischen Dekonstruktionsorientierung und systemtheoretischen Ansätzen. 2007, June IGU conference: Local governance and citizenship. Bern. On urban movements and the violent construction of citizenship. 2007, April Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco. Playing cat and mouse. Violence, urban movements and the role of the police. 2005, December Perspectives d études genre et féminisation de la pauvreté: Journée de reflexion, Institut Interuniversitaire Ages et Générations INAG, Sion. Expérience de la mise en place d études genre aux universités. 2005, June Politics of Bodies and Spaces, Radboud University Nijmegen. Performative bodies and spaces. Coming to terms with Judith Butler and Henri Lefebvre. 2004, August 30 th Congress of the International Geographical Union IGU, Glasgow. Keeping the city proper. Downtown areas between consumer s paradise and urban claims. The case of Bern, Switzerland. 2003, December Ringvorlesung gendered subjects, University of Vienna, Lecture: Geschlecht und Raum Geografien der Differenz. 2003, Deutscher Geographentag, Universität Bern, Exkursion: besetzt Tatorte der Bernr October Hausbesetzungsbewegung. 2002, June International Geographical Union IGU: Rights to the City, Rome. IntenCity. Squatting and the construction of the urban in Swiss cities. 2001, March Association of American Geographers, New York. Embodied gender identities in Latin American feminisms. 4

6 Educational travels and field research Professional missions to Laos, Thailand, Costa Rica, Ethiopia (2008/2009/2011) 2005/2011 Cultural exchange to Cuba (5 weeks each) 1997/96 Research project in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Scientific report on herding management in the Tunari Mountains, Programm of Integral Watershed Management PROMIC, Cochabamba, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC, Bern (12 months) 1992 Language and cultural sojourn in Latin America (7 months) 1995 Youth Exchange with the Swiss Red Cross in Mali, West Africa (4 months) 1988/89 High School exchange to Michigan, USA (12 months) Languages Fluent in English, French, Spanish Fair skills in Italian Mother tongue: German Computer skills Office applications (Word, Excel) - Atlas.ti computer-aided analysis of qualitative data - Endnote - Various Adobe-applications 5